How to Use boulder in a Sentence

boulder

noun

• Trust the car, wait for the brakes, and slide four feet down the face of a boulder half the size of the Bronco.
  — Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• The car was lodged on top of a large boulder, with both front tires off the ground.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• The crew made its way through a creek and around boulders to reach the hiker.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• Once landed, the crew made their way through the creek and boulders to the hiker.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The two men hacked away at rocks and sand in a crevice between boulders.
  — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• And then Marcus Jones launched the biggest boulder of the day.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• The boulder was deposited there, of course, by a glacier.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• All of this with miles of scrub and boulders and endless sky right outside the door.
  — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• The boulder leans to the right, bullying a thin slab of green; at the back a large wedge of bright red remains above the fray.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be easy to miss.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• Think of cobbles and boulders instead of beachy (sand) bars.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
• The landscape was a steep boulder field with three-foot-tall tufts of mountain grass between the rocks.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• There's a nice rope bridge on this one, and for those who dare, Jump Rock, a boulder sticking out of the Red River.
  — Andrea Reeves, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• Instead, these frogs left their egg masses on leaves and mossy boulders above the ground.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• The construction site hemmed in by large boulders, rocks and the ocean on one side and a steep incline on the other.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Each boulder has one tree nestled up right next to it, as if the rock had slid into a tree and stopped.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• In it, Lucky and her friends have to try and find a way to get home for the holidays after a boulder blocks their path.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Sep. 2022
• At the center of the co-ed pools is a striking, sculpture-like boulder sliced in half and polished.
  — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• This news has been like a crane lifting a boulder from my shoulders.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Dramatic photos show Henao’s Prius with the roof caved in by the four-foot boulder.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• The orbiter also captured snapshots of boulder-sized blocks of ice at the site.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• And the toe caps nicely padded the front of my feet just as securely against any stubs on small rocks or boulders.
  — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• From there just work your way downstream, around boulders and past a series of pools.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
• Red Cross workers tried to clear a boulder blocking the two-lane highway.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa'ab Elshamy, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• At one point, Elvis and I had to help a truck driver who had stopped ahead of us move several huge boulders out of the road.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
• At the new location, Zimmerman tweaked the placement of the boulders to better fit the space.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• What makes for a good boulder pairing or rock-to-plant pairing for that matter?
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• Wark threw his rifle on a boulder and prepared to take a standing shot.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 Jan. 2024
• All around her are enormous boulders in varying shades of gray.
  — Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• Wark set up on the boulder and compensated for the bad zero.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024